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  Chapters 1 and 2

  Interview subjects included Ed Koch, Judith Hope, John Peavoy, Alan Schecter, Carolyn Yeldell Staley, Dolly Kyle Browning, Paul Fray, Dr. Arthur Curtis, David Leopoulos, Juanita Broaddrick, Robert Treuhaft, Woody Bassett, Joe Dillard, Robert Lange, Cliff Jackson, Ann Henry, Stephen Pollack, Betty Monkman. Published sources included Todd S. Purdum, “Striking Strengths, Glaring Failures,” New York Times, December 24, 2000; Weston Kosova, “Backstage at the Finale,” Newsweek, February 26, 2001; Margaret Carlson, “The Shadow Moves On,” Time, January 29, 2001; Debra Rosenberg and Michael Isikoff, “Thinkin’ About Tomorrow: Final Days,” Newsweek, January 29, 2001; Kenneth Bazinet, “Prez Says Looong Goodbye,” New York Daily News, January 21, 2001; Michael Medved, “When Bill Met Hillary,” Sunday Times (London), August 21, 1994; Howard Fineman, “The Longest Goodbye,” Newsweek, February 26, 2001; David Maraniss, First in His Class (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995); David Freeman, “The First Friends,” Newsday, January 6, 1993; Gail Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice (New York: Ballantine, 1999); Martha Sherrill, “The Education of Hillary Clinton,” Washington Post, January 11, 1993; Virginia Kelley, Leading with My Heart (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); Judith Warner, Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story (New York: Penguin Books, 1993); Jim Moore, Clinton: Young Man in a Hurry (Fort Worth: The Summit Group, 1992); Ernest Dumas, The Clintons of Arkansas: An Introduction by Those Who Knew Them Best (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993); Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993); Meredith Oakley, On the Make: The Rise of Bill Clinton (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 1994); Michael Morrison, “Who Is Dan Lasater?,” Wall Street Journal, August 7, 1995; Dolly Kyle Browning, Purposes of the Heart (Dallas: DOCC, 1997); Lloyd Grove, “Hillary Clinton, Trying to Have It All,” Washington Post, March 10, 1992; Michael Weiskopf, “Inside Bill’s Last Deal,” Time, January 29, 2001.

  Chapters 3 and 4

  For these chapters, the author drew on conversations with Juanita Broaddrick, Ernest Dumas, L. D. Brown, Rudy Moore, Woody Bassett, Judith Hope, Ann Henry, Paul Fray, Kathleen Willey, David Leopoulos, Vada Sheid, Thomas Mars, Brownie Ledbetter, James McDougal, Larry Gleghorn, Dolly Kyle Browning, Carl Whillock, Richard Atkinson, Morris Henry. Among the published sources consulted: David Maraniss and Susan Schmidt, “Hillary Clinton and the Whitewater Controversy: A Close-up; Her Public Record Suggests Conflicts with Self-Portrait of Naivete,” Washington Post, June 2, 1996; George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999); Charles Babcock and Sharon LaFraniere, “The Clintons’ Finances: A Reflection of Their State’s Power Structure,” Washington Post, July 21, 1992; David Twersky, “A New Kind of Democrat?”, Commentary, February 1993; Jane Gross, “Clinton’s Lost Half-Brother: To Neighbors, He’s Just Leon,” New York Times, June 22, 1993; Joshua Muravchik, “Lament of a Clinton Supporter,” Commentary, August 1993; Art Harris, “Gennifer Flowers,” Penthouse, December 1992; David Brock, “Troopergate: Living with the Clintons,” The American Spectator, January 1994; Ambrose Evans-Prichard, “Sally Perdue and Bill Clinton,” Sunday Telegraph (London), January 23, 1994, and July 17, 1994; Alessandra Stanley, “A Softer Image for Hillary Clinton,” New York Times, July 13, 1992; Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary,” New York Times, May 23, 1993; Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village, and Other Lessons Children Teach Us (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996); Peter J. Boyer, “Life After Vince,” The New Yorker, September 11, 1995; Donnie Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton: A First Lady for Our Time (New York: Warner Books, 1993); Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol,” The New Yorker, May 30, 1994; L. J. Davis, “The Name of the Rose: An Arkansas Thriller,” The New Republic, April 4, 1994; Ann Devroy and Susan Schmidt, “The Mystery in Foster’s Office: Following Suicide, What Drove Associates’ Actions?” Washington Post, December 20, 1995; Bob Woodward, The Agenda (New York: Pocket Books, 1995); Gary Wills, “Inside Hillary’s Head,” Washington Post, January 21, 1996; David Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham (New York: The Free Press, 1996); Roger Morris, The Clintons and Their America (New York: Henry Holt, 1996); “Turning Fifty: Hillary Confronts a Birthday and a Newly Empty Nest,” Time, October 20, 1997; Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office (New York: Random House, 1997); “Hillary’s Role: How Much Clout?” Newsweek, February 15, 1993; Kenneth T. Walsh, “Portrait of a Marriage,” U.S. News & World Report, August 31, 1998; “The Politics of Yuck,” Time, September 14, 1998; “Clinton Admits Lewinsky Liaison to Jury,” New York Times, August 18, 1998; William C. Rempel and David Willman, “Starr Looks for a Pattern in Job Offers by Clinton Camp,” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1998; Ann Douglas, “The Extraordinary Hillary Clinton,” Vogue, December 1998; “The Fight of Their Lives,” Newsweek, December 21, 1998; “The Starr Report: The Independent Counsel’s Complete Report to Congress on the Investigation of President Clinton,” September 9, 1998; Dorothy Rabinowitz, “Juanita Broaddrick Meets the Press,” Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999; Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998); Gail Sheehy, “What Hillary Wants,” Vanity Fair, May 1992; Andrew Morton, Monica’s Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999); James Bennet, “The Next Clinton,” New York Times Magazine, May 30, 1999; Douglas Waller, “Just One Day at a Time,” Time, February 26, 2001; Raymond Hernandez, “Not the Mrs. Clinton Washington Thought It Knew,” New York Times, January 24, 2002.

  Chapters 5 and 6

  Information for these chapters was based in part on conversations with Judith Hope, Ed Koch, Richard Schaeffer, Steve Baranello, Dick Morris, Rick Lazio, Marsha Laufer, Madelaine Miller, Ernest Dumas, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ernie Wright, John Perry Barlow, Susie Tompkins Buell, Esme Taylor, Robert Moschetti, Jane Barber Smith, John Kearney, Priscilla McMillan, Bonnie Engle, John Peavoy, Gaye Landau-Leonard, Marsha Smolens, Marta Sgubin, Larry Klayman, George Guldi, Connie Burns, Lou Ann Vogel, Lawrence C. Moss, Paula Dranov, Steve Levy, and Joseph Ruggiero. Published sources include: Joyce Milton, The First Partner (New York: William Morrow, 1999); Evan Thomas and Debra Rosenberg, “Hillary’s Day in the Sun,” Newsweek, March 1, 1999; Lucinda Franks, “The Intimate Hillary,” Talk, September 1999; Debra Rosenberg and Gregory Beals, “Hillary Makes Her Move,” Newsweek, December 6, 1999; Tom Junod, “Hillary Clinton,” Esquire, October 1999; Elizabeth Kolbert, “Running on Empathy,” The New Yorker, February 7, 2000; Michael Tomasky, “Hillary’s Turn,” New York, April 3, 2000; Meredith Berkman, “Hillary Now,” Ladies’ Home Journal, June 2000; Tish Durkin, “The Hidden Hillary,” The Observer, July 17, 2000; Susan Estrich, “The Trouble with Hillary,” Harper’s Bazaar, August 2000; Michael Tomasky, “The Next Campaign,” New York, November 20, 2000; Patrick S. Halley, On the Road with Hillary (New York: Viking, 2002); Maureen Orth, “The Face of Scandal,” Vanity Fair, June 2001; Gail Sheehy, “Hillary’s Solo Act,” Vanity Fair, August 2001; Gregg Birnbaum, “Hillary: My Hands Are Clean,” New York Post, January 30, 2001; “Hil Mum on Pardons,” New York Daily News, January 26, 2001; Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty, “Hillary Says She Knows Nothing About Her Brother’s Dealings with Her Husband, but a New Investigation May Change That,” Time, March 5, 2001; Susan Page, “Who Gets a Pardon? It Depends Who Asks,” USA Today, March 20, 2001; Greg B. Smith, “Witness: Hillary Clinton Knew of Hasidics’ Convictions, Unhappiness,” Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, April 5, 2001; Jennifer Senior, “Hill Climbing,” New York, April 2, 2001; Jane Gross, “Through the Voters’ Eyes, Senator Clinton’s Missteps,” New York Times, February 10, 2001; Susan Page and Mimi Hall, “Pardon Drama Casts Wide Net,” USA Today, February 23, 2001; Robert Sullivan, “Hillary’s Turn,” Vogue, March 2001; Vincent Morris, “Hill’s Office Hijack: Outrage over D.C. Space Grab,” New York Post, June 27, 2001; Marjorie Williams, “Scenes from a Marriage,” Vanity Fair, July 2001; Kenneth R. Bazinet, “Two Probes Cast Shadow over Hillary,” New York Daily News, August 12, 2001; Nicholas Lemann, “The Hillary Perspective,” The New Yorker, October 8, 2001; Margaret Carlson, “A Shower of Gifts for Hillary and
Bill: Why Did the Clintons Troll for Freebies They Can Surely Afford?”, Time, February 5, 2001; Raymond Hernandez, “Clintons Accused of Not Disclosing Gifts’ True Value,” New York Times, February 13, 2002; Jonathan Alter, “Citizen Clinton,” Newsweek, April 8, 2002; Deborah Orin, “Hill’s Dirty Money,” New York Post, August 9, 2002; Shannon McCaffrey, “Sen. Clinton Will Donate Funds from ImClone CEO,” Associated Press, August 10, 2002; “Clinton Wines and Dines UK Supermodel,” Sunday Times (London), April 28, 2002; Tim Cooper, “A Hint of Saffron,” New York Observer, May 5, 2002; Adam Nagourney and Raymond Hernandez, “For Hillary Clinton, a Dual Role as Star and as Subordinate,” New York Times, October 22, 2002; “Poll: Hillary Clinton Top Democratic 2004 Choice,” CNN, December 21, 2002; Joel Siegel, “Hillary Clinton Slams Bush Plan vs. Terror,” Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, January 25, 2003; “Hillary Clinton Raises Her National Profile,” Gannett News Service, January 15, 2003; Michael Wilson, “Senator Clinton Offers a Cure for Foot-in-Mouth Disease,” New York Times, July 10, 2003; Barbara Olson, The Final Days (Regnery, 2001); Jim Dwyer, “Senator Clinton Says No to ’04, but Playfully Hints at ‘Yes,’ ” New York Times, September 9, 2003; Katharine Q. Selye, “Candidate Joined Crowd with Push from Clintons,” New York Times, September 18, 2003; David T. Cook, “Hillary Clinton,” Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2003; Jeff Zeleny, “Some Democrats Continue Rush for Hillary Clinton to Enter Presidential Race,” Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, September 25, 2003; Associated Press, “Hillary Clinton Joins U.S. Troops for Afghanistan Thanksgiving,” November 27, 2003; David Rohde, “Hillary Clinton Dines with GIs in Afghanistan,” New York Times, November 28, 2003; “Hillary Makes Iraq Visit Hot on the Heels of George W. Bush,” BBC News, November 29, 2003; Melanie Thernstrom, “Hillary Clinton on Top of the World: Alpha Woman of the Year,” More, April 2004; William Safire, “And the Kerry Envelope, Please,” New York Times, April 17, 2004.

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